Universal Studios

We have never taken the time to do anything other than Disneyland while in the L.A area, so this time since it was Mitch's trip, we went to Universal Studios. He has always wanted to go there. It was really fun and the crowds were small so we got to do most everything. We went on the back lot tour and saw lots of cool stuff. I decided that it was a boy place because there were no princesses and everything ends in an explosion. It was cool to see some new things and not wait so long for rides! Poor Thomas woke up that morning throwing up so Kevin took the others over to the park and then in the afternoon when Thomas insisted he felt good he came ALL the way back to get us and then ALL the way back! I didn't realize how far away from Disneyland it was! With traffic it can take an hour one way.

Conan O'Brien

Mitch had his wish come true on the vacation. We sent away for tickets to the Conan show, his favorite, and about a week before we left we found out that we got the tickets. he was SO excited and it was the highlight of his trip! They were even on camera, right behind Andy Richter. It was pretty cool! He was very excited to get the "golden ticket" that meant they had a confirmed seat. Thanks Conan for making Mitch's day!

Thanksgiving

We were so glad to be able to be at Grandma and Grandpa's in San Diego for Thanksgiving! It was really neat because it was the first time in over 30 years that Kevin and his brother and Dad were together for Thanksgiving. We had 6 and his brother Tim had three add Grandma and Grandpa and we had 11 people staying in one house! Crowded but fun! We hope we didn't drive them too crazy! It was a fabulous Thanksgiving.

Beach, Burgers and back home!

We spent a great day at the beach, Thomas and Jacob were boogie boarding in their swim trunks of course as all the locals were in their wet suits! the waves were crazy big and scary. The life guards had to tell Thomas to move over because he was heading for a rip tide. They all survived and then we went to one of our favorite places, Corvette Diner. Then off to Sea Port Village to do some souvenir shopping.
San Diego is the BEST city in the world!!! It is really weird to listen to Christmas music as you stroll along the bay in flip flops! Then we headed back to St. George to spend a tiny bit of time with Mema and Grandpa and have a second Thanksgiving and then back to home and the real world! It was fantastic while it lasted. A very FUN trip. We are SO glad we were able to do it!

Up goes the tree!

Much to Kevin's dismay I put the Christmas tree up and most of my decorations. Since we are not having Thanksgiving at our house this year, I thought why not! He won't let me turn the lights on though!

A sign of whats to come

We took Thomas out of school the other day to take him to the high school swim meet. He knows a bunch of kids on Woods Cross and Bountiful teams so we thought it would be fun to take him to watch, and also to see where he would place if swimming in the meet. Well in the few events we checked on his times would have put him finishing third. The kids that were 2nd and 1st were both seniors. I think he will do O.K next year if he can already finish in the top 3 as an eight grader! It will be fun to see the looks on the seniors faces next year as this little 9th grader beats them! It will be fun to watch!

OUCH!

Jake was up all night last night with a toothache. I took him in this morning to the Dentist and he ended up pulling a tooth and filling a cavity and putting in a spacer. Just add it to the tab of the thousands of doctor bills waiting to be paid! So OUCH is for poor Jake and his mouth and OUCH for more bills! Yipee!!!!